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FAITH NO MORE | 25.11.1992 | Brixton Academy

Kerrang | December 1992

Brixton Academy November 25th

L7 ARE chucked on stage unnecessarily early, thus ensuring
that a large number of people who've looked forward to seeing them miss a lot of the set. Once inside, you find there's rather a lot
of tampon-throwing going on. It seems that ever since Donita Sparks hurled one
at the audience, they've been lobbing them back. And, of course, L7 are still
playing their bollocks off, pumping out those rough-edged, bottom-kicking
tunes. But L7, despite saying they don't want to be known as just a girlie rock
band, pumping into the excellent 'Pretend We're Dead' and Donita suggests, in reference to her
fanny-showing antics on 'The Word', that we all lower our trousers. Then
the next song is dedicated to "all tampon-throwing sisters in the
audience!".

It is quite amusing, but L7 have enough good songs to do
without all that.

There is a glitterball above the stage and the hideous
sounds of Europe's 'The Final Countdown' come parping from the PA. Faith No More are in jolly jape mode, but after that there is very
little of the usual sodding about we've come to expect over the past few years.

Last time, their set didn't really work because no one knew
any of the songs from 'Angel Dust', but this time those tunes are greeted with
almost as much enthusiasm as the old stuff. Almost - but not quite. This is not
the usual FNM crowd; there are a lot of new fans, and many of them would be
equally happy with a regular pop band. Thankfully, Faith No More seem more than
aware of this, and at times it's difficult to tell if the big production, horrible lighting
and a very serious rendition of, 'Easy Like Sunday Morning', yes know they've done it before isn't just a piss-take, Faith No More sounded
damn near perfect, but because of their new-found fame and the audience that
goes with it, there wasn't the same crazy spark of energy that there used to
be. The fact that they open the encore with 'Everything's Ruined' is appropriate
in same ways, but they have one last ace up their sleeves with the Dead
Kennedys' 'Let's Lynch The Landlord', before leaving us with a very abrupt
Death Metal racket. Faith No More are not, after all, some stupid pop band. You
don't find lunatics like Mike Patton in Bros!